Dorsey first texted Elon Musk on March 26, according to court documents obtained by Insider, and their private texts show the Twitter founder attempting to involve Tesla CEO in the site a year before the $44 billion deal.
The conversation surfaced as a result of the current legal dispute between Twitter and Musk, who had previously agreed to buy the social media site back in April but later backed out of the agreement in July.
Jack Dorsey pushed to get Elon Musk involved with Twitter a year before his $44billion offer - private texts claim
According to court documents obtained by Insider, Dorsey first texted Elon Musk on March 26.
According to reports, Dorsey's first text to Musk regarding Twitter read: "I need a new platform. It can't be a company. That's why I left."
The former Twitter CEO reacted by clarifying that the platform should become a "open-sourced protocol" that looks "a bit like what Signal has done," in reference to the encrypted messaging app, accor...